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"Jump off the roof of a department store," would have been the advice of Chum Masako Tomito, had the emergency occurred a few months earlier. At the time of her friend's perplexity, however, all Tokyo's department stores, tired of having patrons jump off their roofs, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Suicide Point | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

In a big room in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania one night last fortnight met 200 of the city's Orthodox Jewish rabbis. For ten hours these bearded men of God prayed and pondered. Before them was a question involving what is most dear and holy to pious Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Issur Issued | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

Early this week, back from vacation, the President suddenly summoned his congressional henchmen and told them to tear up all their scribblings and simply pass a measure empowering him to appoint a policy-making commission for all U. S. aviation, which would commence study at once, make recommendations to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Farley's Deal | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

For the benefit of photographers the ceremony was repeated. Then the President went up the gangplank, putting Governor, Mayor, secretary, photographers, newsmen behind. With Vincent Astor on the bridge beside his cheerful, ruddy-faced skipper Captain Gustav Klang, the Nourmahal nosed carefully down the 18-mile reach of river toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun With Friends | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23, daughter of Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon, first wife of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds, tobacco scion; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte (N. C.) hardwareman; in Hot Springs, Ark., whither she was accompanied by vigilant Father Cannon.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1934 | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

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